HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.05.10)

Symptoms

The console display includes the following:

Initializing IO Devices ...

LBA Cell 01 (01): Occupied PCI-X 133MHz

Scan PCI:

Rope Slot Seg Bus Dev Fun Card

Loading.: 1/0/1/1/0/4/0.6.0.0.0.0.0

Executing Image: "\EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI"

Optional Data : "\EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI boot /stand/vmunix"

Starting: 1/0/1/1/0/4/0.6.0.0.0.0.0

reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.027

ESC[0mESC[37mESC[40m> System Memory = 16335 MB

loading section 0

......................................................

(complete) loading section 1 ............ (complete)

loading symbol table loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS .....

loading MFSFILES directory (/stand/bootfs) to MFS

..............

Workaround

You can either:

◦ Update the server firmware to the latest version. See the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering

and Configuration Guide for firmware version details.

◦ If the virtual partition remains in the load state (you can use vparstatus to verify the

state), perform the following:

1. Issue a hard reset using vparreset to reset the virtual partition.

For example, if winona2 remains in the load state, to issue a hard reset:

winona1# vparreset -p winona2 -h

2. When the target partition is in the down state, attempt booting the partition using

vparboot. For example:

winona1# vparboot -p winona2

The virtual partition should recover and boot properly.

• System Activity Events Reported Through IPMI by EMS

Related Defect ID and Patch Number

JAGaf62654

Applicable On

◦ vPars A.05.xx

◦ vPars A.04.xx on Integrity

◦ vPars A.04.xx on PA-RISC

Description

In a vPars environment, system activity events are decoded and reported on all virtual partitions.

When examining any single virtual partition, this can be misleading, such that it may appear

the events occurred on the virtual partition that reported the problem.

Symptoms

A virtual partition reports an event, similar to the following:

Known problems and workarounds 11